The Raveonettes
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Self-confident and ambitious, the Raveonettes entered the garage rock race of the new millennium with a stylish, brassy sound not heard since Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation. Sune Rose Wagner (guitar, vocals) and Sharin Foo (bass, vocals) hail from Copenhagen and formed the Raveonettes out of dismay for their homeland's state of music.
Wagner had tried getting a band together during the late '90s, packing his bags for New York City's Hell's Kitchen and later experiencing the small crannies of Las Vegas, west Hollywood, and an island outside of Seattle. His first exposure to pop music was his mother's copy of Bob Dylan's Before the Flood. Bob Dylan became Wagner's musical muse. Bits of Buddy Holly and the Everly Brothers and the guitar work of Mark Knopfler sunk in later on, but the lovely dissonance of Sonic Youth and the Jesus and Mary Chain motivated Wagner to do music on a professional level. Alas, his stay in America didn't exactly pan out, so Wagner returned to Denmark and connected with Foo, who had been singing in and around hometown clubs. Foo was born and bred on the Beatles and the Velvet Underground, but also found world music to be equally enticing. During a six-month stay in India, Foo studied qawwali music and dhrupad, the most ancient style of Hindustani classical music. Once Foo and Wagner hooked up, the adventures of the Raveonettes began.
